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Suzanne Presto, CNN

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Pasadena, CA (CNN) -- NASA's black-hole hunting telescope has captured a cosmic battle between dark and light. NuSTAR, formally known as the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, has observed a supermassive black hole's gravity tugging on X-ray light that's being emitted near that black hole. That light is getting stretched and blurred, and researchers are getting to see it all in unprecedented detail, said NASA in a news release issued today. In this instance, the corona -- a source of X-ray light that sits near a black hole -- recently collapsed in toward the black hole that's name